#Thebarntas / Cumulus Studio

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"In a country where architectural design has become a free-for-all, where anything goes, the increasing number of architect designed houses have become synonymous with unconventionality in Japan" writes Naomi Pollock, author of Jutaku: Japanese Houses – a new case study of 411 of Japan's most incredible modernist houses. Western logic and hierarchy of floor plans are thrown out the proverbial window in favour of brutalist concrete structures, winding vertical mazes and steel facades. And…